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\i just love having five research papers due on the same day!\
this sentence is an example of
situational irony.
verbal irony.
dramatic irony.
cosmic irony.
Verbal irony occurs when a speaker says the opposite of what they really mean. The statement "I just love having five research papers due on the same day!" is ironic because having multiple research papers due the same day is typically a stressful, undesirable situation, and the speaker is using "love" to convey the opposite of their true feelings. Situational irony involves a discrepancy between expected and actual events, dramatic irony is when the audience knows more than characters, and cosmic irony relates to fate/universe - this doesn't fit those. So it's verbal irony.
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B. verbal irony